I think this article is spot on. A lot of people I know were turned off from Rust because the compiler was so much stricter than what they were used to, which tends to frustrate experienced devs quickly, in my experience. But it’s not that the compiler is overly strict; the errors it catches would almost always become problems later. It’s just that reducing the number of compile-time errors doesn’t feel like progress as much as reducing the number of run-tine errors, because you haven’t actually run the program successfully.

Once you use Rust for a long time, you adapt to the compiler and can get things to compile much quicker. That’s where the satisfying part of programming in Rust comes. You get to where you write code and it just works, first try.